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Understand Your Entrepreneurial Superpower

Skip Prichard

The author of ten books, five of his works have been optioned for films. The city was buzzing with excitement, with startups popping up everywhere, and events and pitch nights hosted by new incubators hoping to attract investors. That’s why accelerators and incubators and tech ecosystems are so vital to this iterative process.

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Kill Your Business Model Before It Kills You

Harvard Business Review

The Postal Service, even with the constraints of its government mandate, has known for years that its traditional model was coming apart; Kodak realized that film was being replaced by digital media long before it changed its investment strategy; AOL knew that dial-up subscriptions were fading years before it took action.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business Review

EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s.

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Kill Your Business Model Before It Kills You

Harvard Business Review

The Postal Service, even with the constraints of its government mandate, has known for years that its traditional model was coming apart; Kodak realized that film was being replaced by digital media long before it changed its investment strategy; AOL knew that dial-up subscriptions were fading years before it took action.

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Africa’s Entrepreneurs Can’t Be Restrained by Fear of Failure

Harvard Business Review

From South Africa’s Silicon Cape to Kenya’s iHub -centered Silicon Savannah movement – from Ethiopia’s burgeoning textiles industry to Nigeria’s ubiquitous Nollywood film industry – there are visible signs of the growing profile of African entrepreneurs. They must focus on: Creating better safety nets.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business Review

Scalers iteratively experiment and tweak new ideas until they find product-market fit using methods like agile or lean. This is most common in accelerators and incubators, where a new organization is set up as a microcosm of the parent company and made up of people from every major function and discipline.

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As Machines Take Jobs, Companies Need to Get Creative About Making New Ones

Harvard Business Review

While our first instinct might be to help employees find new jobs, what we really need to do is help companies shift into new markets focused on human services and adopt new business models that will allow employees, customers, and communities to benefit from technological change. Automated farming is also quickly advancing.

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